Telecommunications company Nokia has announced that it plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to strengthen its software offering in the areas of security, automation and monetisation to both better meet customer needs and to expand its market growth.
According to Nokia, this announcement reflects the ongoing evolution of its software portfolio and builds on previous efforts to make its applications fully cloud-native and deployable in any cloud environment. Nokia has also launched various Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) projects.
As part of its announcement, Nokia’s operations support systems (OSS), business support systems (BSS) and security software applications will be united under Nokia’s brand, AVA (automation, visualisation, analytics). Nokia claims AVA provides “intelligence everywhere” through the use of AI, machine learning, no code configuration, open APIs, multi-cloud orchestration and digital ecosystems.
The company is introducing its AVA Open Analytics framework to help communication service providers (CSPs) accelerate AI projects, partially through the simplification of data storage. Nokia cites industry estimates that suggest data scientists can spend around 40% of their time on data wrangling and repetitive tasks that should be automated.
The framework was therefore designed to support users to move from monolithic and centralised data “lakes” to a hybrid data mesh architecture that enables data scientists to focus on the needs of their data use cases. Nokia has said it plans for the framework to be completely commercially available in 2023.
Nokia is also introducing its Ignite Digital Ecosystem to bring together customers and application partners to accelerate and commercialise innovation of security, automation and monetisation solutions.
Hamdy Farid, senior vice president of business applications at Nokia, said: “By strengthening our analytics framework and unifying our portfolio under the AVA brand, we are reinforcing our commitment to provide deep intelligence across our security, automation and monetisation solutions.
“We look forward to partnering with our CSP and enterprise customers along with application developers to drive further innovation and create 5G value.”
